Harness attachment.



G.H.NOYES. HARNESS ATTACHMENT.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 30, 1912.

Patented Mar. 18, 1913.

QWi/me oz CHARLES H. NOYES, OF OMAHA, NEBRASKA.

HARNESS ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 18, 1913.

Application filed September 30, 1912. Serial No. 723,024.

'1 '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES H. NOYES, a citizen of the United States, residing at Omaha, in the county of Douglas and State of Nebraska, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Harness Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a harness attachment, and has for its object to provide a device which may be placed upon any part of the harness providing a rigid, curved support, for holding the driving-lines or reins.

)Vhen a harness is removed from the draftanimal, it is customary to fold and secure the driving-reins in the guide-rings of the back-strap or in the rings of the hames, this operation being quite inconvenient and requiring a considerable loss of time. By use of the herein described device, the lines or reins are simply pressed within an inwardly-convergent space or recess when folded, this convergent containing-space being formed between the curved spring-arm of the device and the surface of the support. The article is also useful for the securing of halter straps or the straps of any part of a harness usually secured to rings.

The invention has reference to an integral structure which conduces to economy of manufacture, to a convenient holding means formed at the base of the device so that it may be rigidly and quickly secured upon a support or may be readily removed therefrom, and it also includes the peculiar form of the resilient holders or arms, said arms being maintained at a suitable distance from each other at their terminals, so that each may exert a pressure, independently of the other, outwardly of the sides of the support, and thereby tending to bend the strap or driving-rein while held by said arms, in a manner to secure those members.

With these objects in view the invention presents a novel construction, combination and arrangement of parts as described herein and claimed, and as illustrated in the drawing, wherein,-

Figure l is a front or rear view, partly broken, showing a pair of guide-rings mounted upon the back-piece of a harness, and illustrating the mounting of the holders upon the rings. Fig. 2 is a view, partly in section, showing a front or rear view of one of the line-holders. Fig. 3 is a side view, partly in section, of the parts shown in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a view somewhat similar to that shown in Fig. 3, parts of certain driving-lines, reins or straps being added, and shown to be secured between the support and the arms, the force of the spring-arms causing them to be bent and compressed. Fig. 5 is a partly broken front or rear view of a hame with the device mounted thereon, this being a modified form of the device believed to be within the scope of the invention.

Referring now to the drawing for a more particular description, numeral 6 indicates the back-piece or back-strap of a harness, said member generally being provided with the pair of adjacently-disposed guide-rings 7 within which the driving-reins or lines are usually inserted, the stems or shanks of the rings being indicated at 8.

The attachment or line-holder consists of an integral piece of elastic wire, bent midway between its ends to form the loop 9, and bent in an opposite direction to form the pair of substantially parallel loops 10 (Figs. 3, 4,) disposed adjacent and transverse to loop 9, the remaining parts of the metallic strand or wire forming curved spring-arms 11 with transverse, inturned end-portions 12 (Fig. 3), the curvature of the arms preferably being uniform as compared with each other, said curvature being in the same general direction as the curved surface of the support 7, to form an in wardly-convergent recess, pocket or containing-space 13 (Fig. 2,) between the support and arms 11, for holding the driving-reins 14: when folded and pressed inwardly of said containing-space.

As above described loop 9 provides a holder or base adapted to engage and to be disposed at the sides of the support 8; and a screw-bolt or other suitable keeper 15 may be employed for securing the base upon said support, said bolt traversing loops 10, the head a of the bolt and the nut 79 engaging the wire of said loops 10 in a manner to firmly secure the device upon the support.

The device may be readily secured upon any rigid part of a harness. In instances where rings 7 have been employed it has been the custom to fold the lines or reins within said rings, and to tie them in this position, in a well known manner, at the time of removing the harness. By use of the herein described device, since each contaming-space 13 is formed outwardly-d1- Fif Q new,

vergent, the folded reins when manually moved in e lateral direction, will be firmly secured between the arms 11 and the cuiwed support provided by the rings, the operation being more speedy and convenient than former y practised.

llhile l have shown the transverse portions 12 to be disconnected, to the end that the elastic arms 11 may move independently of each other, and prefer this construction, the device would be fairly operative if they were connected, and therefore l do not wish to limit myself to the exactness elf construction shown. Portions 12 form stops and are adapted to make contactwith each other, and this is an advantage since undue pressure directed against an arm in one direction will be communicated to the other arm.

By reference to it will be seen that U arms 11, laterally considered, diverge from each other in a direction of their terminals, to project outwardly of the sides of the ring, and therefore the reins r lines may be bent and more firmly secured when moved inwardly of the arms.

Fig. 5 shows a home 16 providing rigid support, and it shows a wire holder having a. loop 9', loops 10, and resilient arms 11 to provide on outwardlydi ergent containing-space 13 between said arms and the adjacent surface ot the heme; and loops 10 may be traversed by the keeper 15. l i hile the curvature of the arms is different, the

operation of parts and general construction is the same as already described, and this modified form. of line-holder is considered to be within. the scope of the invention. lt is introduced for the reason that heroes are quite generally used for harnesses, and rings 7 are not always employed. ln practice, the device is found to be very convenient, and will not be obtrusive whether mounted upon the hames or upon rings 7.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is,

The combination with a harness carrying a rigid support, of a strap holder comprising a single piece of wire bent at its bight portion to form a loop for embracing said support and being bent therefrom to form opposed loops projecting beyond said support, a fastening member traversing said last named loops and lying upon the opposite side of said support from the first named loop and arms extended from the second named loops, said arms diverging from each other in one direction and from the support in the other direction.

In testimony whereof l[ have etlined my signature in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLE$ ll. NOYES.

Witnesses HInAM A. S'rnnons, L M. 'lrrorrss.

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